Dumping-wagon.



0. D. ANDERSON.

DUMPING WAGON.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 6. 1918.

Patented July 16, 1918.

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OSCAR D. ANnERsON,` or CONWAY, scornl CAROLINA.

:DUMPING-WAGON.

specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 16, 191s.

Application led March 6, 1918. Serial 110.220,730.

To all whom, t may Concern.'

Be 1t known that I, OSCAR D. ANDERSON, a citizen of the United States of America,

and a resident of Conway, county of Horry.

and State of South Carolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Duinping-V-agons, ofy which the following is a full and clear specification.

This invention has for itsobject to provide a dumping body and its supporting frame which Vcan be removably mounted upon the running'gear of a wagon after its non-dumping body has been removed.

A further object is to provide a-supporting frame for-a dumping body which is constructed with va means for detachably engaging the usual bolster standards or stakes, to secure said supporting frame in position on the running gear.

' These and other objects hereinafter se forth are attained by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which-v Figure lis va view partly in side elevation and partly in section showing the improved dumping body and its support mounted on the running Ygear of a wagon; f

Fig. 2 is a plan Viewv of a portion of th same, showing the outline of the body in dotted lines Fig- 3 is a vertical cross-section on the line 3f- 3 of Fig. 1; and

Figs. l and 5 are det-ail views of the roller bearings used on the removable supporting frame.

Similar reference numerals in all of the iguresof the drawing designate like parts.

kThis improvement is especially adapted for use in connection with the type of wagon constructed with a body or box which is bodily removable to leave the running gear in condition for use as a lumber wagon for hauling poles, posts or cut lumber. This type of wagon is used extensively on farms, and a farmer possessing one of the hereindescribed bodies and its roller bed, in addition to the regular body, can transform his non-dumping wagon intoa dumping wagon without the necessity of using tools or removing bolts.

The running gear of the usual farm wagon embodies a front aXle 10, a rear` axle 11, a front bolster 12, a rear bolster 13, a reach-bar 14 connecting the two bolsters, so that the front and rear wheels are held in spaced relation, and each bolster is provided at its ends with standards or stakes 15, which lie on each side of the wagon-body to prevent its transverse displacement, and, when t-he body is removed, to serve as lumber stakes forretaining logs and lumber on the bolsters.

The improved dump -body attachment comprises a rectangular frame having sidebars 1G permanently connected together by the'transverse bars 17, 18 and 19, forming a rigid bed-framev which can be bodily moved' from one place to another without the danger of separation of its part-s.

Side-bars 16 have mounted in their upper surfaces, in any desirable manner, a vplurality of body-supporting rollers 20, and cross-bar 19 has centrally secured to its rear face and extending horizontally therefrom a U-shaped fulcruIn-loop 21, for a purpose hereinafter described.

A wagon-body 22 is mounted on the roller Vframe and is supported upon the rollers 20,

so that it'can be'easily shifted back and forth to dumping and non-dumping position. Body 22 is retained against transverse movement on the roller frame by the upwardly-projectingl stakesf23, which are rigidly secured at their llower ends to the side rails 16 adjacent their ends. *These stakes 23 not only serve as guides and retainers for the dump-body, vbut they are also positioned upon the roller-frame to respectively engage opposite sidesof the front and rear bolster standards 15, to serve as a means for retaining the roller-frame against longitudinal movement upon the bolsters.

'Wagon-body 22 is preferably constructed with a sheet-metal bottom 24, on the-under side of which are secured the transverse braces 25,'One being at the rear end-of the body and the other at a point approximately midway between the ends thereof. To these braces 25 are secured the ends of a metal dump-strap 26 which is spaced apart from the bottom of the body and whose ends'are bent upwardly to engage the braces 25. The forward end of this dump-strap is preferaably bent upwardly and backwardly to form a curved loop 27 which is adapted to engage the cross-bar of the fulcrum-loop 21 'when the wagon-body reaches the dumping position, said fulcrum-loop being positioned in a plane intermediate the height of loop 27 and between the ends of the strap 26. To provide clearance for the movement of strap 26 which projects below the bottom of the wagon-body, and to allow the wagon-body to be supported close to the top side of the roller-frame, the transverse bars 18 and 19 of the roller-trame arerecessed, as shown at 28, which provides passageways for the strap 2G.

Between the transverse braces 25, there are securedto the metal "bottom'21` wooden lilling-pieces 29, which are slightly narrower than the width of the wagon-body, so that the extreme side edges of the metal. bottom are left exposed to serve as tracks to', engage the rollers 20, as clearly shown inFig.l 3 of the drawing. At the Sametime, the side edges of the llers v29 serve as side-guides, to prevent transverse shifting of the wagonbody in cooperation with-bothsets of stakes or standards 12 and 23. v

Any suitable locking'means can be provided 'or preventing movement of the wagonbody when in its loading or non-dumping position. In the drawing is shown a staple 30 secured to the front end of the roller- `frame, which is adapted to receive a removable locking-pin l-which also engages the bottom of the wagon-body. Stakes 28 are preferably longitudinally adjustable to and from each otherupon the roller-frame by means of additional sets of bolt-holes in the frame, as shown at 32, in Fig. 1 of the drawing. This will enable the v owner to adjust the locking means Ofthedumping attachment to fit short or long coupled running gears. Y

i i In operation, assuming that the owner has an ordinary non-dumping wagon of the type heretofore described, the body-thereof is removed andplaced to one side, leaving the bare running gear with vits vbolsters and standards. Then the improved dumping body and its rollerecarrying frame are placed upon the running gear, with the stakes'fZ-B ofthe roller-frame engaging respectively the opposite sides of the front and rear bolster stakes, .thereby effectually locking the dumpingV attachment in position upon. the ruiming gear. I/Vhen it is desired to dump the body, itis pushed manually to the rear upon the rollers 20, and, at its point of balance, loop27 engages ulcrum-loop 21 and thereby forms a stop for the rearward Copies ot-this patent `*may be obtained for movement of the body and at the same time 'forms a pivot upon which the body will turn to dumping position. y

The nature and scope ot the invention having been thus indicated and its preferred embodiment having been speciieally 'de-V said body upon the bed-frame when the same Y is removed from the running-gear, andv cooperating means on saidbody and bed-frame for limiting the rearward movement ofk said body at the dumpingposition. Y, l

2.r In combination Vwith va wagon running gear having upstanding side-stakes, a dumping-body attachment comprising` a rectangular bed-frame formed with side-bars and .-53 cross-bars to enable itL tobe bodily movedY from said running gear, a wagon -ibody or box mounted to move longitudinally on said bed-frame, and upwardly-projecting standards secured to said y,bed-rameand soY positioned as to engage the sidepV-stakes of the running-gear to prevent kmovement of Vthe bed-frame.thereon and also to eXtend upwardly alongside the wagon-body to retain said body. upon.. the bed-frameiwhen the 'z 90 same is removed from the running-gear, said standards also. being adjustablelo-ngitudinally of said bed-frame to vadapt them to running-gears coupled in varying lengths,

and'coperating--means on said body -and bed-frame for limiting the rearward movement of said body at the dumping'position.

In testimony whereof I hereunto a'liix my l signature. Y Y

oscAgR D. ANDERsoN.

ve cents eachl by,address.inf;.the Commissioner of Patenti, .Weshingtonfl` C. s v 

